Marijuana

Politics

Pro-Pot Legalization Campaign Airing Ads in Washington

New Approach Washington has spent $1 million on air time ahead of the upcoming legalization ballot initiative.

Reason Staff | 8.7.2012 12:52 PM

Politics

Just Imagine What Michael Phelps Might Have Done If He Hadn't Smoked Pot?

Nick Gillespie | 8.5.2012 3:16 PM

War on Drugs

The DEA Busted Fewer Marijuana Grow Operations In 2011 Than Previous Years

Lucy Steigerwald | 8.3.2012 5:41 PM

War on Drugs

Peru Lights Up 50 Tons of Grass

Police in a nation better know for cocaine say they've torched a record haul of marijuana

Reason Staff | 8.3.2012 4:45 PM

Politics

Marijuana on the Ballot in Five States in November

Scott Shackford | 7.27.2012 12:40 PM

Politics

Could Obama's Pot Crackdown Cost Him Colorado?

Matt Welch | 7.19.2012 3:37 PM

Politics

Truth in Trials Act (H.R. 6134) to Protect Medical Marijuana Patients: Reps Barney Frank and Ron Paul are Supporters

Lucy Steigerwald | 7.18.2012 10:04 PM

Politics

That Slam Against Pot Smokers Came Out of Nowhere, Man

Jacob Sullum | 7.17.2012 6:29 PM

Policy

From Bootlegging to Pot Trafficking

The outlaws of Marion County, Kentucky, defy one Prohibition after another.

Mike Riggs | 7.13.2012 4:30 PM

Politics

FBI: Zimmerman Not Racist, Occupy Riot in L.A., Anybody Serious About the Deficit?: P.M. Links

Scott Shackford | 7.13.2012 4:30 PM

Policy

Gabriel G. Nahas, Who Warned Us to Keep Off the Grass, RIP

Jacob Sullum | 7.12.2012 3:07 AM

Policy

Your Terrible Anti-Marijuana Editorial of the Day is Somehow in Favor of Decriminalization

Lucy Steigerwald | 7.10.2012 1:55 PM

Politics

Police Ask for More Cell Records, Oregon May Vote to Legalize Pot, "Fast and Furious" Suspects Named: P.M. Links

Scott Shackford | 7.9.2012 4:30 PM

Politics

Obama Scaled Back the War on Drugs, and I Missed It

Jacob Sullum | 7.6.2012 2:05 AM

Politics

Police Stand on Volunteer's Neck, Destroy Surveillance Cameras During Dispensary Raid

Melanie Kruvelis | 7.5.2012 2:55 PM

Policy

The DEA's Classification of Pot: Destroyed but Still Standing

Jacob Sullum | 7.3.2012 3:44 PM

Politics

Marijuana Reform Bill Fails in New York

Jacob Sullum | 6.21.2012 2:21 PM

Politics

From the Choom Gang to the White House

A new biography shows how Barack Obama the youthful pothead became Barack Obama the presidential drug warrior.

Mike Godwin | 6.18.2012 11:00 AM

Politics

Obama's Secret Weapon: Voters Too Stupid to Realize His Drug Policies Suck

Jacob Sullum | 6.14.2012 2:09 AM

Politics

61 Percent of Colorado Voters Support Regulated Marijuana Legalization

Matthew Feeney | 6.12.2012 3:55 PM

Policy

Public Defender in GA: Cops Can't Use Thermal Images of Possible Grow Lights For Search Warrants

Matthew Feeney | 6.11.2012 3:20 PM

Politics

Hemp Legalization Amendment Attached to Farm Bill

Matthew Feeney | 6.8.2012 2:30 PM

Politics

The Specter of Decatuple-Jointed Ears

Jacob Sullum | 6.8.2012 8:53 AM

War on Drugs

Your Awful Pro-Drug War Editorial of the Day (From Australia!)

Lucy Steigerwald | 6.6.2012 7:20 PM

Policy

Marijuana Patient Denied Transplant Has 90 Days To Live

Paul Detrick | 6.6.2012 2:07 PM

Politics

Apparently You Are An 'Idiot' if Your Presidential Vote Depends On Marijuana Legalization

Matthew Feeney | 6.4.2012 4:30 PM

Politics

Cuomo Wants to Decriminalize 'Public Display' of Marijuana

Jacob Sullum | 6.4.2012 1:18 PM

Politics

California Continues to Be Less Hippie Than Expected: Only 46 Percent of Residents Support Marijuana Legalization

Lucy Steigerwald | 5.31.2012 10:06 PM

Policy

How Charlie Rangel's Outrage Shifted From Drugs to Drug Penalties

Jacob Sullum | 5.31.2012 8:31 PM

Policy

Drug Busts As Make-Work for Superfluous Cops

Jacob Sullum | 5.25.2012 11:46 AM

Politics

George Soros and Other Lefty Moneybags Types Aren't Primarying Lousy Old Democrats Because the Party Is More Ideologically Diverse! Wait, What?

Matt Welch | 5.24.2012 12:16 PM

Culture

Pro-Legalization Congressional Candidate Primarying a Democrat in El Paso

Matt Welch | 5.23.2012 8:15 AM

Policy

Support for Pot Legalization Crosses 50 Percent, With 56 Percent of Americans Now In Favor of Treating it Like Booze

Mike Riggs | 5.22.2012 1:13 PM

Policy

As 25 More Denver Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Shut Their Doors To Keep the Feds Away, There's Talk of the Need to "clean up the industry" and Help "the kids" by Banning Sign Spinners, or Banning Medical Pot Advertising Entirely

Lucy Steigerwald | 5.9.2012 10:28 PM

Policy

Teen Pot Smoking 'Surges' While Staying the Same

Jacob Sullum | 5.2.2012 5:36 PM

Policy

Judge Upholds Dutch Policy Banning Foreigners From Cannabis Cafés

Jacob Sullum | 4.27.2012 2:41 PM

Policy

The Best Answer to Crackdowns on Medical Marijuana? A Medical Marijuana Vending Machine.

Lucy Steigerwald | 4.24.2012 5:30 PM

Policy

Connecticut Medical Marijuana Legalization Gets Closer, But Politicians Still Have Some Stupid, Cruel, and Anti-Market Objections

Lucy Steigerwald | 4.20.2012 9:48 PM

Policy

Former U.S. Prosecutor Who Took Down Marc Emery Calls for Legalization, But Doesn't Regret Prosecution of "Prince of Pot"

Lucy Steigerwald | 4.18.2012 10:00 PM

Policy

Why Medical Marijuana Providers Are Opposing Legalization Efforts in Washington and Colorado

Mike Riggs | 4.16.2012 11:47 AM

Politics

More From George Will on the Costs of Drug Prohibition

Jacob Sullum | 4.12.2012 3:35 PM

Politics

Florida Drug Warriors Say They Had to Erase Possibly Incriminating Surveillance Video—for Their Own Protection

Jacob Sullum | 4.11.2012 4:17 PM

Policy

Spanish Village Votes "No" on Big Field of Revenue-Raising, Probably Illegal Marijuana

Lucy Steigerwald | 4.10.2012 10:00 PM

Policy

Katherine Mangu-Ward on the Medical Marijuana Business in The Wall Street Journal

Reason Staff | 4.9.2012 9:35 AM

Policy

Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Puts Up Pro-Legalization Billboard

Lucy Steigerwald | 4.6.2012 6:38 PM

Policy

Matt Welch Talks Pot Raids, Gun Sales, and Stones Songs on Varney & Co.

Matt Welch | 4.6.2012 5:05 PM

Politics

George Will: Drug Prohibition Is an Awful Flop. We Like It.

Jacob Sullum | 4.5.2012 4:21 PM

Politics

What We Saw at the San Francisco Marijuana Rally

Reason Staff | 4.5.2012 12:36 PM